SUMMER.
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Hail, gentle Summer! every mead With thy fair robe of beauty spread To thee that beauty owes; The smiling flowers with joy declare, And loudly tell to Reason's ear, Whence all that beauty flows. Fawkes.

Plate 17. Pæonia Tenuifolia. Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Junr.